Posts by DJSpuddyLizard

Re: Robots in charge?

"Medicare Advantage is a privately-run, government-approved attempt to destroy the federal Medicare program "

FTFY.

Re: Were there no signs indicating that the Bridge was out?

"It's just to add Streetview pics, as far as I can tell. "

And that can be seven years between visits.....

Re: What About The Current Resident?

"What's more, as a VP / Senator he had no right to classified docs"

Oh boy, you really don't understand ANYTHING about document classifications, do you?

For example - a United States Air Force general will routinely deal with Classified, Secret, and Top Secret documents as part of their job. A Master Sergeant might also may a Top Secret clearance.

Even an airman might happen to have a Secret clearance.

As the Vice President, you're next in line to be the Commander In Chief, so you'd better damn well know some military secrets.

"whereas a P has every right and cant declassify anything he wants to at any time."

First, you mean CAN not cant, and THERE IS A PROCESS, not a spell.

Re: Too Often...

I hear GB also used to have strict controls on currency, like this:

https://archive.org/details/a_warning_to_travellers_TNA

Re: I'm not so old that I can't scroll downwards without assistance

Wait, you're not enraptured with joy by "discoverable" interfaces?

Re: previous versions

Seriously?

Windows 8 and onwards (whatever that hideous GUI is called) was designed to function on phones and tablets, because remember, Microsoft was going to completely take over those segments?

What they forgot was that 90% of their users had desktops.

These were not changes to benefit the majority of users...

Re: TIFKAM

Usability went out the door with Windows 8

Yep, that why on the machine I built last month, I installed Windows 7.

Asus Motherboard with Ryzen 2700, zooms along nicely.

Re: Double ejection

If this had happened in the US, he'd have sued the Air Force not just for any medical bills but for all sorts of damages and possible aftercare further down the line

And the USAF would have counter-sued for damage to their plane.

Re: Is this just an English thing ?

"plurality mismatch detected."

Thou art hereby banned from using "your" for singular second person. Thou must use "thine" instead.

Seriously, if singular "their" and "they" was ok in the 14th century, then it's fine now.

Re: You'd have thought...

My plan in central Texas:

Winter - (January & February) Set temp to 22F

Spring - (March & April) Set temp to 21C

Summer (April-October) Keep temp at 21C

Autumn (November & December) Keep temp at 21C

Re: Both sides?

My favorite was on Christmas tree lights - "For use only inside or outside".

Re: Default for .ps1 files is edit

Does anyone really think hackers leave them with a .ps1 extension?

I've seen recently a lot of ".avi" files that are really shortcuts containing powershell code to execute program x from an internet location.

I used to use Peppa Pig to inform my then-four-year-old about the realities of living in England (she's British-American but we live in the USA.) such as visiting the beach in the snow, rainy weather, finding loud characters who sound like Brian Blessed everywhere, etc.

Re: Office 365

Office 365.2425 by my calculations...

Don't worry, soon Edge will be Chrome underneath.

Re: 100% honesty 90% of the time

"blame fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field."

I once worked hell desk and had a corporate client who often called complaining about network connectivity, Our team soon deduced it was caused by thunderstorms at the client office, but it's hard to tell people that on the phone, even when true.

The Dash buttons obvious already contain WiFi circuitry and some processing power.

Add an LED display. When you press then button, it shows the price, press again to buy within 30 seconds.

Re: Airport facial recognition

Men with beards break the UK border facial recognition s/w; how can that be a problem?

It was a problem for the Victorians, and is still a problem.

Frazzles are not suitable for humans

Re: battered?

Finally, turn the heat back up, return the lardons to the pan and stir gently a few times, making sure any remaining water has evaporated. For a really festive touch, mix in a few sliced marrons glacés before serving.

You missed the step where you remove the sprouts before serving.

Re: Classic Reg, keeping it classy

Vitriol I've always imagined in tastes like really, really oversteeped tea.

I thought it was a cross between cod liver oil, motor oil, and goat cheese.

Re: Ironic, isn't it?

Westcliffe-on-sea -

they did. That was the reason I liked to go visit me Gran in the mid to late 80s - it was the only Maplin store I knew of - and I loved the catalogue.

Re: Unplugging the keyboard = kernel panic ?

Because when confronted with a message on a screen, people's understanding becomes astonishingly literal.

I thought that as IT people, we're all astonishingly literal anyway? Specifications don't really work otherwise.

Re: Hilarious

That seems rather doubtful. There's a lot more to web development than just arranging the visuals.

Yes, but those "web developers" whose sole qualification is three weeks at a Web Boot Camp will be soon having to be selling off their kidneys.

Password027!

Re: There is so much to be wary of here . . .

Once I got to the point where the name of the app was given (Voatz), my mind just shut off.

Why do I have pictures of stoats in my mind?

And on the radio, they're trying to convince me to mispronounce 'Disqus" as if it had an extra S on the end.

Mind you, they also promoted an elder assist program that helped with "lighthouse keeping" instead of "light housekeeping"

Re: Dear ICANN,

Don't create a new TLD unless it is 100% crystal clear from the get-go, beyond any question of debate, who it should belong to.....

Similarly I have no objection to creating ".disney' or '.pepsi' if you really must, though I think it's a shocking waste of everyone's time.

You're actually contradicting yourself.

Have you ever visited Nissan.com ? There's an interesting tale....

Re: I'm actually surprised that it works on raw samples at all

I actually think that moving to raw samples is a rather bad thing to do

Exactly. They're already making it harder. I don't go around humming a pop song because I remember the Ronkhorn synth had extra reverb in it, I remember the song because of the melody.

Perhaps if they'd started with the glaringly obvious idea of just using more source material they could do better.

Re: Debranding and forcing AMD out of gaming is anti-competitive and monopolistic.

ASUS was selling BOTH Radeon and Geforce under the Republic of Gamers or ROG brand. nVidia forced ASUS to DEBRAND RADEON from ROG

They should have tried selling the Radeon offerings under the "Republic of Gamerz" brand. There, eliminated the confusion for you!

It's well known that adverts appearing because of your browsing history only recommend items that you'd only buy again after considerable time had passed (cars, refridgerators, sofas). God forbid that anyone would actually see an advert that was useful.

Is that why, six years later, Amazon is still suggesting baby products to me?

Re: Unisys screwed up

I would refine that to having partaken in a "grab a box of books for free" offer and not even knowing what he has taken.

No, it's like a pile of books available for free - "please take one [or more]!", and the kid shows up with a robot that picks up the books one by one and shoves them in a box.

The fact that one of the books is "Top Secret Methods for mounting rockets on LaserSharks" is not his fault.

Re: Slightly unrelated, but...

Notwithstanding that most places seem to be able to work this out automatically from the card number, there was nothing at all to indicate you were supposed to do this.

Yes, the first two digits... If you say "37..." I say "American Express". "60" = Discover Card, "4" = Visa, etc.

Oh, and don't you love "discoverable" interfaces? I always delight in discovering an optimum experience

Re: Validation Vs verification

A simple sanity check for dates would save so much grief!

Yes it would. For a job years ago I wrote a VB.Net tool to archive data and images to optical disk for sale to the public. I soon learned that when it blew up, it was probably because some government user managed to write something like "Feb 29 2005" . My solution was to assume they meant the last day of February.

Re: "until I get my dark adaptation back"

Do what pilots do - close one eye in such situations

How often to aircraft pilot have to deal with oncoming cars?

Seriously though, yes, this works. It's why pirates wore eyepatches

..Who remembers those "demonstrations" at the Networks show in Birmingham in the 90s, where Novell dropped anvils on one of a pair of running servers to show, er, gravity or something. ...

I remember seeing the Compaq Destructive Testing Lab when I was a contractor back in Houston in the 90s. It seemed they would attempt to crush servers, then act surprised when the poor machine actually crushed. I really don't know how that was supposed to help the average buyer ... "Yes, but our servers can stand up to FOURTEEN thousand pounds of force!" sorry, mate, if there's 14,000 pounds force extra in your server room, there's a problem that most likely needs immediate attention.

Re: Sinclair jump started programming in Europe

So, a friend got me the 'Complete ZX Spectrum ROM Disassembly' by Dr.Ian Logan and Dr.Frank O.Hara. The bible of programming Assembly Z80 on the Spectrum!

I had one, too.

The really cool thing to think about now, is that you could just about understand the whole system.

You understood to some degree the hardware, what each chip did, the assembler instruction set, the programs, and maybe even how the BASIC worked. Of course I had to look up Chebyshev polynomials, but you can see how it uses them, even if you don't fully grasp the math.

Now, I really don't understand what cross-site XML phalumph scripting has to do with my ISO viewstate enterprise modelfactory anymore, and these days I have to research stored procedures I wrote last month, because they're so complex.

Re: Cats can be a problem

@Cats can be a problem.

Toddlers too.

On our PCs at home I had to bypass the power and reset buttons and install switches with a key.

Good old cold-war missile bunker key switches on both PCs, just in case.